November 10th, 2022   |  
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A group of children were given food for thought after a visit from SK Foods. As part of their Geography lessons, Year 5 and 6 pupils at Howletch Lane Primary School in Peterlee listened to a presentation given by two members of our New Product Development (NPD) team. Technologists Rebecca Storey and Kate Chapman spoke […]

October 21st, 2022   |  
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Caring colleagues took to the skies to help raise funds for a much-loved SK workmate who suffered life changing brain injuries. Craig Fielden, 52, a longstanding employee at our distribution warehouse in Wynyard, spent four months in a coma and a year in hospital after the brain haemorrhage and several subsequent seizures. Now recuperating back […]

September 23rd, 2022   |  
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Though home may be 2000 miles away, a group of Ukrainian refugees were still able to celebrate their national day – with a little help from SK Foods. The party was organised by British-Ukrainian Jurijs Harchenko and attended by over 20 refugees who are currently being hosted by families in the Middlesbrough area. Jurijs himself […]

June 17th, 2022   |  
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When the price of cooking oil rises as it is now, the ripples are felt across the globe – commercially and domestically. From a consumers point of view, cooking oil is bought on a regular basis by 75% of supermarket customers for home cooking. It’s also a vital ingredient for most restaurants and takeaways with […]

March 18th, 2022   |  
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Alan Thorpe has joined SK Chilled Foods as its new Managing Director. The 52-year-old joined SK on 7th March from Marmum Dairy in the United Arab Emirates where he spent the last two and a half years working as Sales Director. Reporting to Group Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Faulkner, Alan has overall responsibility for the […]

July 8th, 2021   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Finding out he’d been successfully appointed as SK Chilled Food’s newest Development Chef was an early birthday present for 25-year-old Jack Hunter. The chef was given the good news of his appointment the day before his birthday and was officially part of the team just three days later! Jack comes with an impressive pedigree having […]

June 3rd, 2021   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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If you are in one of the large UK supermarkets and you see someone rearranging the shelves in the chilled aisle who is not a member of staff, chances are it will be Lydia Akrami. That’s because our NPD Manager is a perfectionist when it comes to our products. She explains: “I get a real […]

May 27th, 2021   |  
Author: Simon Chambers   |  
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Can you believe it’s almost June? Looking out of the window, it is hard to believe as we search for the small patches of blue interspersed with the grey, wet clouds. Perhaps change will be here soon and we can then enjoy some much needed outdoor living….. Anyway, what a strange time we still find […]

March 12th, 2021   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Rebecca Storey has always enjoyed cooking and science, so she decided to combine the two to make the perfect job. The 23-year-old joined SK as a Development Technologist (DT) in December 2019 after completing a degree in food science and engineering. This followed a placement at SK when she was at university which gave her […]

November 13th, 2020   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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It’s fair to say that Simon Chambers would have an easier job if he could see into the future, but although he hasn’t got that this particular super-power just yet, he still has the task to predict what’s about to happen. In his case, this involves an awful lot of data and market analysis along […]